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these are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and determined to export its radical form of islam and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy. to cross-talk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a radio show host or a gentleman cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage you brian is it time for washington to tell saudi arabia to pound sand. well i think it's been long established that the u.s. government considers the saudi government to be an indispensable ally not its only ally and perhaps now not its principal ally but certainly an important one ronald reagan made it clear more than thirty years ago that there would be quote no revolution in saudi arabia because the us was just absolutely determined to k
these are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and determined to export its radical form of islam and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy. to cross-talk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the...
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looks at i mean if the israelis see that they have a whole lot of cards here ok maybe netanyahu and obama don't get along very well but netanyahu does have the congress ok and you know we i don't see a lot of sticks coming out from apac i mean you know iran is one issue but you know when you look at the palestinian israel conflict congress is really very close to netanyahu is positioning and i don't see anything changing in ok the european union will drop funding that's not going to change that the israeli position not one iota i bet you know you are going to let me go to iraq the early going to have been threatening on the go ahead. the europeans talk about this a great deal and even as for mr obama's position peter when he was running for office in two thousand and eight he promised an undivided jerusalem to israel as its capital and even president bush has not said anything so outrageous and mr obama keeps all his administration they keep increasing aid to israel it's not as if you know they're playing good cop bad cop but it depends how seriously you take obama. you know not long ago
looks at i mean if the israelis see that they have a whole lot of cards here ok maybe netanyahu and obama don't get along very well but netanyahu does have the congress ok and you know we i don't see a lot of sticks coming out from apac i mean you know iran is one issue but you know when you look at the palestinian israel conflict congress is really very close to netanyahu is positioning and i don't see anything changing in ok the european union will drop funding that's not going to change that...
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administration is advocating for some way for a change in policy towards iran there is of course as you know both the israeli opposition and massive opposition inside of congress and from the military industrial complex against any such shift but i have to say it is the same sions have taken a huge toll on the iranian people the american government and the european union didn't allow iran to sell oil they froze their bank assets any government any company that wants to do a financial transaction with iran can only do so with the explicit consent of the treasury department so the iranian people have lost eighty percent of their currency their currency has been devalued eighty percent in a west year just imagine if all of our paychecks were depleted by eighty percent people are hungry people are lacking medicine in other words the iranian people are negotiating with with a gun to their head they want to change they want to new policy they've never wanted a nuclear weapon they've said we don't have a nuclear weapon the international atomic energy agency says they don't have a nuclear w
administration is advocating for some way for a change in policy towards iran there is of course as you know both the israeli opposition and massive opposition inside of congress and from the military industrial complex against any such shift but i have to say it is the same sions have taken a huge toll on the iranian people the american government and the european union didn't allow iran to sell oil they froze their bank assets any government any company that wants to do a financial...